Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 68, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 February 1903 — Page 1

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The crime was committed without witnesses in the saloon of the dead man and when fotind the woman was without life and Stark was in his last breath.

The dead man and his wife were seen together on the streets of Rosedale this morning for the first time in many months. They walked to the postoffice together and after getting a letter from the mail, continued to the saloon, a -hort distance. Both appeared to be on the best of terms. Half an hour afterward three shots were heard in the saloon. Citizens rushed in almost immediately and were horrified to find Mrs. Stark lying on the floor near the stove Mlood was flowing from her side. Close to his wife Stark was lying in a pool of Mood with a 44-ca,liber revolver in his hand and gasping for breath. He never -poke and died within five minutes.

Article? in the saloon were not disturbed but on the bar was a- note from Stark as follows: "Give my boy to Isaac Laney."

The trouble which led to the crime lates back almost a year. At that ime Mrs. SI ark was a victim of tvplioid lever and her sister Bertha Blackster was brought to assist in the cares of the household and children. Stark became intimate with her and later brought her :o Terre Haute where she became the

LONDONERS OBJECT TO MAIL TRANSPORTATION

LONDON, Feb. 6.—The English business community is complaining that .Morgan's shipping trust has led to great deterioration in the Atlantic service. The. mails this winter have been slower and more irregular than at any time in the nast ten years, as a usual thing being nine or ten or sometimes twelve days from New York. This delay, it is claimed is causing much inconvenience. It further asserted that instead of the .promised express service -four times a week, the fastest boats have been laid off and cattle ships substituted in their places. This latter complaint is explained partly as due to Morgan's promising he German lines six percent, so there is no inducement for the latter to run boats in the dull season.

These regular boats in the trans-Atlan-tic trade are the Cunard liners and there re not controlled by Morgan.

TRIAL OF RUBINO ITALIAN ANARCHIST

BRUSSELS, Feb. 6—The trial of Rui'ino, the Italian anarchist who shot at King l^eopold on November 11 last began here today. An immense crowd was rresent in the court room when the trial opened. Rubino interrupted the proceedings several times. Assuming many posis, in a declamatory voice, he addressed the court. He evidently believes he is i' great hero. At one time he shouted. "1 am not the accused. It is you and your whole rotten society, which enclaves labor. I condemn you to death. Kub'ino admitted that it was his intention to kill King Leopold when he fired the shot. He said that while in London received money from the police for spying on the anarchists but he had derived the police and gave the money to men he was supposed to watch.

Coal Vessel Runs Ashore. VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass., Feb. 6— The seven-masted steel schooner Thomas W. Lawson from Newport News for Bos

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with about ,8,000 tons of the bituminous coal, run ashore on Middle Ground

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dispatched to her aid. She is the ,-irgest .schooner in the world. A northVest gale prevails.

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Average Daily Circu- a ty A laiion for January O}^

This is three times the circulation of any other Terre Haute newspaper.

VOLUME XVII.

HORRIBLI

MAN KILLS HIS WIFE AND BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS

Mali the Scene of a Sensational Mmdsr and Suicide This Morning.

THE CULMINATION OF OOMESTIG TROUBLES

JOHN STARK, A SALOON' KEEPER CALLS HIS WIFE FROM TERRE HAUTE AND KILLS HER BEFORE TURNING REVOLVER ON HIMSELF.

John Stark, a saloonkeeper, brutally mother of a child. This state of affairs

murdered his wife and blew liis own brains out shortly after 9 o'clock this morning in the little town of Rosedale eighteen miles northeast of Terre. Haute.

Details of the crime are most horrible and is the culmination of domestic differences that has caused more or less i'amily quarrels for the past ten months or more.

The murdered woman is well known in Terre Haute and left this city yesterday to join her husband at his own solicitation and on a promise of pease in their home..

was soon discovered by Mrs. Stark and developed a quarrel. Stark ignored his wife and brought liis sister-in-law to Rosedale with tne child intending to hav6 her live with himself and wife. When the girl came in the house Mrs. Slav left and come to Terre Haute where she secured employment.

Stark continued to live with his sister-in-law. The first of this week he wrote a letter to his wife in this city begging her to return to him and the children with a promise that he would put her sister out of the house

Mrs. Stark complied with this request Thursday and the end came with the crime this morning.

Stark is 35 years old, Mrs. Stark 30, and her si ter Bertha Blackster 18. Five children are made orphans, the eldest being 8 years and the youngest 15 months.

Coroner Mercer of Parke county was at the scene of the crime at noon and on examination of the victims found that Mrs. Stark had been shot in the right side and her husband in the right side of his head, both bullets remaining in the bodies.

The Blackster girl was still in Rosedale when the murder and suicide happened, but became frightened and disappeared from the town at noon, fearing that she would be assaulted by some of the citizens.

Citizens of Rosedale say that Stark had a bad reputation and was disowned by his own father, who refused to have the body taken to his home to be prepared for burial.

The body of Mrs. Stark was taken to their home where it was examined by Coroner Mercer, but that of her husband had not been removed from the saloon up to late this afternoon.

Mrs. Stark's parents live near Hillsdale and have been notified of her death.

SETTLEMENT PREDICTED ON COMPROMISE BASIS

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. G—The soft coal operators of the central competitive district, composed of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, that are negotiating a scale with the miner's for the ensuing year, issued a statement today, saying that the offer that had been made to increase the wages of pick miners and day laborers in mines 12'/, per cent, and to advance the drivers 22 per cent, makes a total increase of a little over 90 per ccnt in Indiana since .the spring of 1897. The operators say that the minors cannot let any con tention of a minor nature bring on f. strike in the soft coal fields. They assert that the miners have won previous strikes because of public sympathy, but that public sympathy would not be with the miners this year if they allow technicalities to stand in the way of a settlement of the wage, scale. The conference is again in session today. A settlement is predicted on a compromise basis.

OLD MAN ARRESTED FOR COUNTERFEITING

CANTON, O., Feb. G—United States Detective Dick and Deputy Marshal Fanning of Cleveland, went to the home of Nathaniel Miller, one mile west of Cairo, in Plain township last night, where they placed Miller under arrest for counterfeiting. The officers searched the premises and found a complete outfit for the making of all denominations of silver coins. They found a large quantity of metal used in the manufacture of the counterfeit pieces, but no finished work. The man will be taken to Cleveland today. He is about fifty years of age.

Ministers Send Out Appeals. (Tribune News Bureau.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 6.—The ministers and Christian workers of Indianapolis today, sent an appeal to every church in Indiana urging that expressions against Sunday base ball be secured, and rushed to the legislature by Monday. The bill, however, is expected to come up for consideration late this afternoon and the efforts of the church people may be useless as far as preventing the passage of the bill is concerned. The governor is receiving hundreds of letters from all over the state requesting that he refuse to sign the bill when it is presented to him.

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THE DAILY

RED TAPE THE REAL CAUSE OF DELAY

QUIBBLING OF EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY IRRITATES BOWEN

WHICH MAY END HIS MISSION

STRAINED RELATIONS WITH THE BRITISH MINISTER CAUSE MUCH DISAPPOINTMENT

PRESIDENT RECOMMENDS HAGUE

Thought That He Will Not Admit Into Law of Nations the Right of Force to Collect Private Debts.

WASHINGTON, Feb. G.—Much disappointment is felt in official circles here that a lack of personal sympathy between Minister Bowen and Sir Michael Herbert should threaten to prevent the speedy settlement of the Venezuelan trouble.

It has been known for several days that their relations have been strained, while those existing between the Venezuelan representative and Ambassador Mayor and Count Quadt and Baron von Sternberg have been most cordial.

The explanation made is that the two are apart both temperamentally and officially. Mr. Bowen is typically an American and impatient of red tape and quibbling methods of European diplomacy. Several times he has found it necessary to express this impatience and to intimate that if the foreign representatives persist in useless delays he would have to call his mission at an end and return to Venezuela.

These warnings were taken good naturedly by the envoys of Germany and Italy, who apparently were pleased to see the responsibility for progress or its lack thrown upon the head of the British embassy. Ambassador Herbert was already chafing under the false position into which his home government had been thrust by the astuteness of Germany, which, threatened to impair the much valued friendship of the United States and this, added to his ill-he&lth, has, it is said, caused him to be exceedingly irritable at times. This condition culminated when Bowen, with bluntness, told him in the note of Monday, that the English people would hardly approve the methods of their foreign office, and flatly refused preference of English claims for more than one month.

It is unlikely that the president will undertake the task of settling the ques tion of preference. The arguments brought forth in his first refusal are of more force in this special instance. To continue the alliance for six or more years to permit these three powers to obtain practically a monopoly of Venezuela's revenues or any part of them, to the prejudice of American claims, or to admit into the law of nations the principle that powers which employ force to collect private debts are more worthy than those who do not, are matters repugnant to the United States'

Secretary Hay, by instruction of the president will probably inform Sir Michael that this government still believes in the efficiency of The Hague tribunal and would prefer that the question be submitted to it, if an amicable agreement cannot be reached with Minister Bowen.

Big Fire at Lebanon.

LEBANON, Ind., Feb. 6.—A lire which was discovered shortly after 2 o'clock Friday morning, destroyed $155,000 worth of property, insured for half that amount. The fire started from a gas jet or stove in Phil Adler's dry goods store. His loss is $60,000. The other losses are: Wilson and Williams clothing store, $25,000 two stores in the C. F. S. Neal block, $25,000 S.-I. Cason building. $25,000 Perkins and Perkins, clothing, $10,000 Foster & Co., grocery, $10,000. The telephone plant cables were burned out. The buildings burned were in the heart of the business section.

New York Swept by Wind. NEW YORK, Feb. 6—A sixty-four mile wind shook up New York yesterday. By blowing a messenger boy under an automobile it caused one fatality. The accident happened in front of the Flat Jron building at the junction of Fifth avenue and Broadway, where guests swept across Broadway with terrific force. John McTaggart, 14 years of age, was blown into the street by one of these gusts and landed under ,an automobile. He was picked up unconscious, internally injured, and died later at the New York hospital.

A Handsome Yacht.

JACKSONVILLE, FIa„ Feb. 6—The steam yacht Guniida. of the Cleveland. Ohio, yacht club, has arrived in port and wil lput out for a cruise in tke West Indies. The Guniida is owned by J. G. Harkness of Cleveland, and is one of the handsomest yachts of her kind that has ever visited here.

School Teachers Will Organize. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.—The public school teachers of the state are to be organized into industrial unions. The fir.^t union has been formed in Saa Jose and the American Federation of Labor has been applied to for a charter.

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E MUR1 DER AND SI JICIDE AT ROSEC

BABGUS STATUE BILL PASSED

WARM DEBATE IN THE SENATE ON PARLIAMENTARY RULES

DEMOCRATIC TRICK FAILED

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY LOBBYISTS GIVEN SEVERE SHOCK BY AN AMENDMENT

PRESENT INCUMBENTS DUMPED

Visitation Committee Reports—Ministers Issue Appeal to Churches of the State—No Mention of

Reformatory Trouble.

(Tribune News Bureau.)

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. G—By quick work and firm ruling Lieutenant Governor Gilbert saved the Republican members of the senate from an embarrassing predicament today when Bareus' bill providing for a statue to George Rogers Clark in statuary hall at Washington was placed on passage. Senator Fortune, Democratic leader, sent up a motion calling for an amendment substituting the name of Benjamin Harrison for that of Clark. Senator Ball was in the chair and under his ruling the motion was put to a vote and Republicans were placed on record as voting against ITairison. Gilbert, who had been in the lobby, came in just as roll call was completed. He discovered that Fortune through oversight had neglccted to sign the motion and quickly taking the chair and gavel before the vote was announced he held that the motion was out of order because it Mas not signed and ruled thai none of the proceedings in connection with the episode should be made part of Senate Journal. His ruling precipitated the liveliest parliamentary battle of the session, but he won out. The Bill was then passed by a strictly party vote in spite of filbustering tactics of minority.

In the house this afternoon prosecuting attorneys who have been here lobbying for bill increasing their salaries to one thousand dollars, received a severe jolt. The bill came up for a second reading and on motion of Sayre it was amended so that, it would not apply to present incumbents. There were between fifteen and twenty prosecutors in the rear, of the house during proceedings and when they realized that if the bill does become a law they will not reap the benefit of their efforts as lobbyists their faces assumed expressions of woeful dispair ludicious to behold.

In the report of legislative visitation committee submitted today contrary to general expectations it contained no reference to alleged mismanagement of the Indiana reformatory. Senator Goodwine explains omission by saying nothing of this sort was expected from the committee. that the straightening of reformatory affairs had been taken from the legislature and placed in the hands of the governor.

Celtic at Queenstown.'

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 6-The White Star line Celtic from New York January 29, passed nere this morning a day late. She did net land any mails .here on account of heavy weather.

TEHUE HAUTE, IjSTD,, .. FEBRUARY 6, 1903. 12 PAGES. XAST EDITIOX— NUMBER 68

OSCAR—"Can't You Crowd Over a little, ernest." ERNEST—" 'Crowd Over Do you expect a respectable citizen like me to sit in the gutter.

TOUCHES

BOSTON

PARKHURST'S SARCASTIC COMMENTS ON HARVARD

CALLS DOWN PRESIDENT ELIOT

New York Divine Says There is Much Freakish Learning in the City of Beans.

BOSTON. Feb. 6—The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst of New Y.©rk in a sermon delivered at the installation of the Rev. John 11. Denison as pastor of the Central Congregational church Thursday night, made several sarcastic comments on President Eliot of Harvard. He called Dr. Eliot's recent arraignment of the public school system, "•lame philosophy" and picking up Mr. Eliot's remarks that gambling was a dangerous form of pleasurable excitement. Dr. Parkhurst said that there was a child-like simplicity in the way the "head of Harvard stated the case that was touching." "If New York is ever converted into a modem Bedlam and the police reserves have to be eallcd out, it is when large representations from the universities come to the city to spend the night,"' said Dr. Parkhurst. He said that there was much freakish learning in Boston and he thought the city needed a fresh start.

SAVED MM LIVES

PASSENGER TRAIN STALLED TUNNEL OVER AN HOUR

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ONE MAN PRO'VES A HERO

Took Charge of Engine and Run With Passengers Into Open and Safety.

TACOMA, Wash., Feb. G.—The lives of 200 passengers aboard the eastbound Overland train on the Great Northern railway were imperiled when the train was stalled in the Cascade tunnel for an hour and thirty minutes owing to an accident to the air brakes. John Abbott, a passenger proved a hero, and his act doubtless saved many lives.

The crews of both engines and many passengers were overcome by gas caused by smoke from the locomotives and the lights in the cars were extinguished. Abbott, realizing the situation, while pas sengers were falling about him in an unconscious state, made his way to the locomotives. He found the crews unconscious, but succeeded in starting the air pump and releasing the air brakes. He then backed th(v train to the west end of the tunnel, it being all down grade, and ran it to he switch at the switch at the tunnel entrance.

But for Abbott's heroic action all on the train might have perished.

Mystery at Pekin.

LONDON, Feb. 6.—A dispatch to the Standard from Tien Tsin says that private reports indicate an unusual state of things at the imperial palace at Peking. It is suggested that the recent rumor of the death of the dowager empress may possibly be true, but that the news is being .suppressed until the completion of the new year observances.

MEN BURIED UNDER THE WALLS

FOUR STORY BRICK' BUILDING COLLAPSED AT BUFFALO

SCORE OF MEN WERE INJURED

MANY PEDESTRIANS CAUGHT BESIDES THIRTY OR MORE WORKMEN

THE FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE

The Crash Came With No Premonitary Warning to the Victims At Work on the

Building.

BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. G.—The brick wall of the four story Strauss buildin which was being demolished at Fillmore avenue and William street, fell about 10:30 a. m. today. A score or more of laborers were buried under the debris. Five are known to be killed and their bodies have been recovered. Several in jured who have been removed to the, hospitals will die

The building is an old three-story affair. For years it was owned by Strauss and Son who recently sold it to the Hygienic Food company and this firm decided to make several alterations before tenancy. To perfect the change it was necessary to strengthen the west wall of the building, and a portion of it had to be torn down, and for this work a force of 30 men had been engaged. Some of them were at work on the sidewalk this morning when tiie wall fell. The crash came with no premonitory warning. It simply swayed for a moment and then the entire wall dropped outward with a crash, burying fourteen men under the debris and injuring many pedestrians.

At 1:30 p. m. corrected returns from the scene of the disaster make the fatalities less than first reported. The following is a revised list of casualties:

The dead: FRANK PFLUGI. 241 Fougeron street. ADAM HERZOG, laborer, Howard street.

The missinir: JOHN NEWMAN, laborer. MICHAEL BECKER, laborer. The injured: Frederick Parker, extent of not known.

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Ambrose Mohr, internally injured, thought fatal. Charles Fogcl. living 237 Howard street, both legs broken cannot live.

A startling discovery was made this morning by Commissioner of Public Works Francis G. Ward, which will probably .lead to the detention of the contractors or owners of the Strauss buildin for an explanation. Commissioner Ward said that the records of the bureau of building do not show that a permit was i'vued which provided for the remodelling of the building, or that one was ever asked for.

Coined a New Word.

LONDON, Feb. 6—Baron Avebury. scientist a"nd banker, recently published a geological work entitled "The Geology of England." in which he coined a, new word. Referring to the nprthern districts, he says, "Rocks occur manywhere."

THE WEATHER. •..

Rain in southern, probably heavy snow in northern portions tonight and Saturday warmer tonight.

ALE TODAY

CHICAGO ELEVATOR MEN STRIKE

THOUSANDS OF WORKERS ARE COMPELLED TO CLIMB THE,STAIRS

BUSINESS ALMOST SUSPENDED

DEMAND AN INCREASE OF WAGES AND UNIFORMS FURNISHED BY BUILDING OWNERS

AND THE TIE UP MAY SPREAD

The Light and Power Companies Are Warned Against Supplying Building With Power and Light.

CHICAGO, Feb. G.—Thousands ot workers were 'compelled1 to climb many flights of steps to their offices in fifteen of the big office buildings in Chicago this morning as a result of the strike inaugurated by the elevator men, janitors and window washers.

Many of the occupants of the offices were forced to climb fifteen stories. Business in the highest offices -is practically suspended. The strike threatens to extend to all lie skyscrapers down town. Recognition of the unions and an increase, of twenty percent, in wages has been demanded by the strikers. At a meeting of rhe building managers it was decided to resist these demands. Strikers' committees went from building to building at an early hour and cut off tiie coal supplies. They also notified members of the firemen's and engineers unions that sympathetic strikes would be demanded of their unions unless the building owners yielded.

Electric companies that furnish light and power to the structures have been warned that unless they refuse to continue to give the building service their fuel supply will be cut off. The strikers want wages of $ •)." a month and their uniforms supplied by the buildings.

The men in the Stock Exchange. New York Life. Woman's Temple and Marquctte buildings have promised to join the strikers unless the demands are mefe by the building managers association. The buildings affected are the Old Colony, Monon. National Life. Girard, Como, Kaskasia. Eagle, Quincy, Manhattan, Harvey, Watson. Ray State, Caxton, Lowell and Harrison.

SOLDIER LANDS 0'N A PRIZE FIGHTER

NEW \ORK, Feb. 6—Hank Ivennv, the former prize fighter and sparring partner of Fitzsinimons, ran up againrffc an army officer last night and was knocked two ways from Sunday.

Lieutenant Arthur Leroy Bump of the eighth infantry, stationed at Governor'* Island, and on his way home from the dance with a young lady, stepped into a cigar store to get a cigar. When he came out he says he saw Kenny speaking to the young woman and heard Hank make an insulting noise with his lips. The lieutenant asked Kenny what he mcanti by it.

Hank replied that it was none of Rump's business, whereupon the lieutenant sailed into the ex-pugilist. Kcnnv got in the first, blow, cutting the lieutenant's lip slightly, but that was all.

The lieutenant smashed him all over the sidewalk, punched his nose, bruised an eye and was about to put him out when the crowd interfered. Kenny wag locked up.

A MINISTER'S WIFE QUITS THE STAG8

NEW YORK, Feb. 6—Manager Will* iams of the Orpbeum theater in Brook Ivn made an announcement at the con« elusion of the performance there last night that Florence Halliday, the wifg ai the Rev. Charles Brown, chaplain oj *4 the city mission, would end her briei tage career this week. Mrs. Williajng *1 said that she had decided to cancel alj her engagements because her husband had been cailed before the mission superintendent and Bishop Potter and told that his salary would be increased $400 a. year. When Mrs. Brown made the an-t nouncement that she inteded to go on the vaudeville stage, she-explained that it was because- her husband received a small salary and that she wa.« anxious to earn sufficient money to educate heff four year old son. She made her debut at the Oipheum Monday night last.

Millinery Store Burned.

SCOTTSBL'RG, Ind., Feb. 6-At 5 o'clock Friday morning tire was discovered in the millinery store of Rebecca Beggs, on Main street, and gained such headway that seven buildings were destroyed before the fire was under control. The Una is estimated at $25,000.

Submarine Volcano.

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SEATTLE Wash., Feb. 6.—The schoon-' er Sear)»/«, which arrived here, encountered 9, submarine volcano or earthquake soutfr of Formosa. There were violent shocks lasting fifteen minutes. They threw the sea into a foam and cora] pumice was shot up.